«Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur»
Tyra Wigg

How do our bodies react to the use of social media? Choreographer Tyra Wigg researches the relationship between online feeds, algorithms and our digestive system.

  • Thu 08/05 18:00 – 19:30

    Nordflügel

Copyright: Tyra Wigg

Choreographer Tyra Wigg and their team are inviting to a work-in-process sharing of their performance «Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur» that premieres in Kaserne Basel September 10, 2025.

The production is a speculative dialogue between the online attention economy, the time right before it, and the biological agencies of our digestive system. We encounter three performers searching for a collective progression through temporalities, movements, and sentences from various social media feeds.

As if stuck in an algorithm-driven feedback loop, they find a certain enjoyment but solutions or relief never arrive. This stagnant activity is radically overturned by digestive organs in a visceral revolt.

Hungry eyes, curious tongues, chewing and gagging mouths, generate a bewilderment that revives what attention economies flatten. From there we ask: how can our physical core of existence empower a movement that doesn’t subscribe to an increasingly technofascist world?

After the sharing you are welcome to stay for a conversation about the work.

Free entry, registration by 7 May via kasse@gessnerallee.ch.
Remaining places will be allocated to spontaneous visitors. If you require an accessible space (wheelchair space, beanbag), please note this in your registration.

Information on accessibility and language

  • The sharing will take place in English spoken language

  • Content Note: gagging and puking sounds

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